Chapter 234 The Big Ship
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“He should not be far from us, I can already smell its stink.”
“Keep moving, let’s We must find that bastard before the Lord of the White Knights comes back, then grab him, throw him into the airdrop pod and drop him on the surface."
Chief Thinker Varis is walking in a certain area on the lower plywood.
Behind Varis was the captain's brother-in-law, the adjutant, and the marines led by this tall adjutant. All of these team members were carefully selected, very smart and physically strong.
Strong Marines are responsible for exploring and investigating some inaccessible places on the lower deck.
There may be some dangerous things in these places, so the children of the void who are weak because they were born in a gravity-free environment are not suitable for this task. Only the warriors that the battleship had previously recruited on a certain planet Only suitable for this task.
The chief think tank is at the forefront.
The others followed.
All were as armed as Varis, and all were as vigilant as Varis the Space Marine.
Although they are inside the White Knight, everyone seems to be in the most dangerous enemy-occupied area. Everyone feels like a member of a guerrilla or resistance organization.
There are enemies everywhere, and there is a roar.
"Chief Sir." The captain's adjutant held a shield in one hand and a power stick in the other, and took two quick steps to catch up with Varis.
This strong man who had not been transformed but was as tall as Varis was now nervous and his face was covered with sweat.
"What's the matter?" Varis turned to look at the adjutant, his eyes under the helmet casting a somewhat disgusting look.
In Varis' opinion, the reason why this captain's adjutant became the captain's adjutant was entirely due to human relationships.
At the same time, Varis also feels that the captain should learn how to serve as the captain of a warship in a legion that advocates strength, which means that he should choose the best people to do things instead of nepotism. .
"Think tank editor Lord Kamath asked: He has completed the search of the area he is responsible for. Should he move closer to us or other think tank members who are participating in the search?" the adjutant asked.
Varys glanced at the communication signal equipment behind the adjutant and shook his head: "Let him move closer to the others. If anything happens here, you and I can solve it."
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The adjutant nodded, and then quickly conveyed Varis' order.
Everyone moved on.
At this time, in other places on the lower plywood, other think tanks and the marines they led were conducting search missions.
Before the Lord of the White Knight left the White Knight to do another thing, he once used his psychic vision to see through the entire battleship and saw a large blur on the battleship.
That blur means where the soulless person is.
But the problem is that the blur covers almost half of the lower area, so everyone still has to come and search.
"Attack!"
Suddenly a team member roared. Varis just heard the roar and was about to turn his head when he heard a series of gunfire.
The team members are holding laser weapons. The laser weapons in their hands were made from the STC template that the Legion obtained when they saved a hive world.
Although it is a very ordinary laser rifle, it is still an ancient thing after all, so it is naturally unique.
The beams emitted by all the laser rifles covered the darkness in the distance. This fire coverage lasted for a while. When each laser rifle was about to overheat, it began to emit heat energy into the air. After the laser rifle cooled down completely, Part of the heat energy is absorbed by the laser rifle and replenished into the magazine.
"What are you attacking?" Varis asked after everyone ceased fire.
A Marine quickly ran into the darkness, then walked out of the darkness, standing on the dividing line between darkness and the light of the searchlight, holding up the body in his hand.
The corpse in the hands of the team members is that of a creature that is a fusion of metal and flesh. The surface of this creature's body is covered with metal, and under the metal are flesh and bones.
Varys has seen information about this creature.
This creature is called a wild boar.
An adult wild boar is as tall as the original body, and the surface of the body will be almost completely covered with metal. At the same time, metal bone armor will grow on vital parts of the body, and even the organs will be wrapped in bone armor.
Look at the corpse in the soldier's hands. It was a small wild boar. It was not as outrageous as an adult wild boar, so it could be easily solved by everyone.
"Wild boar?" A Marine looked at the corpse and was very surprised, "I remember we should have killed this ghost two years ago."
"Maybe What bastard noble wants to raise such a thing, and then take it on board and let him accidentally get lost, or simply abandon it?" another person said.
The part of the White Knight toward the stern near the lower deck was a heap of rubbish.
But the garbage dump here is not only hazardous waste, such as the remaining promethium waste carried back and forth by the gang of servitors belonging to the Quadrant monks in the engine room.
There are also some extremely terrifying creatures here. The origins of these creatures include but are not limited to: monsters abandoned and raised by nobles who like to hunt for novels. Before the establishment of the empire, the White Knight was treated as a monster in the hands of its own forces. A biochemical modification engineering artifact that was lost in the laboratory when the research ship was in use.
When he was serving in the First Legion, the "cargo" fell onto the ship while transporting supplies to the legion.
"It's just a wild boar." The Marine Captain looked at Varis and asked with confusion and concern, "Are you okay, sir? If you wear all the tactical equipment, you will definitely find it before us. What’s more, even if your tactical equipment is not worthy, it is still much stronger than ours.”
Varis said nothing, because he was also surprised that he didn't notice anything approaching just now.
At this time, the chief think tank did not look as calm as he appeared on the surface. He felt like his head was in a mess, and then something seemed to be stirring up the mess in his head.
The usual keen senses and powerful psychic power are now very little left.
Varys even felt that he should not be able to use psychic powers. Without the two crystals placed in the compartment of his armor, his connection with the subspace would be completely severed.
"I...I'm fine." Varis held the bolter tightly and motioned for everyone to continue moving forward.
He also paid attention to the captain's adjutant.
The adjutant lowered his head, his face was very pale, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead.
The strong man didn’t shoot at all just now.
"Don't be nervous, man. We are just performing a simple mission."
The soldier standing on the dividing line between darkness and the light of the searchlight smiled at the adjutant.
"At least we didn't encounter the Cyborg tribe."
"And..."
The warrior's chest was suddenly penetrated by a sharp tooth that was almost the same size as his upper body. He hadn't finished speaking yet. The last half of his words were like his organs, being stabbed to pieces by sharp teeth and then flowing out from the edge of the bloody hole in his chest.
The warrior was lifted up by the sharp teeth and slowly moved forward.
Behind the warrior, a giant beast four to five meters tall walked out of the darkness, its blood-red eyes fell on the human body, and its wide nostrils sprayed out two streams of hot steam visible to the naked eye. "Enemy attack!"
Except for the adjutant, all the soldiers spread out and distanced themselves, and then focused their fire on the large wild boar.
Varys's reaction was a little slower. After everyone else dispersed, the originally very keen Space Marine made a move. He raised his bolter and shot at the wild boar while staring closely with his eyes. The wild boar released a psychic attack.
The crystal containing Qin Xia's spiritual energy allowed Varis to still have the power to use spiritual energy in this situation. The spiritual energy gathered into a spiritual shock. After the wild boar was hit, he was stunned for a moment, and then fiercely Shake your head hard to wake up.
The angry wild boar rushed towards the human.
When facing the wild boar, Varis even felt as if he was facing a tank, and was not the wild boar's primary target.
The wild boar's primary target is the captain's adjutant who is closest to him and is still standing there stupidly after the battle begins.
The giant beast rushed towards the adjutant, rushed in front of the adjutant, and roared horribly against the incoming lasers and explosive bombs.
The adjutant, who was as tall as Varis, was as cowardly as a child. He stood under the bloody mouth of the giant beast, his facial features twisted together due to fear, and he opened his mouth, but at this time he couldn't help but No cry for help could come out of his mouth.
The Marines behind him roared at the adjutant, using various crude language to tell the idiot to get back to him.
Varis regretted that he had brought this adjutant here, and at the same time he tried to use his psychic powers to pull the adjutant.
At this time, the giant beast roared again, and the adjutant was so frightened that he screamed and fell to the ground.
The giant beast approached the adjutant, ready to swallow the cowardly human into its belly.
Every time the giant beast approaches one centimeter, the expression of fear on the adjutant's face will deepen. Until the giant beast approaches completely, the look of horror on the adjutant's face reaches its extreme.
The extreme horror actually seemed less horrifying, and turned into a kind of calmness like a corpse.
The adjutant suddenly took off the melt cannon from his back, screamed and opened fire on the giant beast in front of him.
The heat melt, which is most effective at close range, instantly melts half of the beast's body.
"Idiot!" The Marines scolded the adjutant and stepped forward.
Varys also stepped forward, pulled the adjutant up from the ground, and then walked to the wild boar to observe the body.
The wild boar has a metal shell, including its eyes, which are protected by a softened metal.
"The metal shell of this damn thing can even interfere with the detection device. Even if you peel off this metal shell and put it on the machine, the machine can defend against EMP attacks!" The experienced captain walked up to Varis and looked at the inside of the wild boar. The soft organ was kicked hard.
“Before I came here, I had no idea there were so many ghosts on our battleship.” Varis looked around, suppressing the discomfort, “I feel like we are not on the White Knight at all. Instead, go on a fucking jungle adventure in a damn dead world."
"This wild boar is not the most terrifying thing," the captain said with a smile. "We once destroyed it. Passing a tribe of Cyborgs."
Varys quickly turned to look at the captain's face.
“The so-called cyborg tribe is the descendants of some people who came to this ship to serve as sailors a long time ago. When this warship did not belong to the 12th Legion, these people had no jobs or because of I was too tired at work and ran away from my job.”
"In order to adapt to the environment here, they transformed themselves."
"After the Lord of the Twelve Legions issued an order, that is, everyone in every battleship in the fleet should have a job and They don't want to believe us about the order of food rationing. They refuse to return to civilized society and choose to continue to be savages in this ghost place."
"..."
Finish listening. With the captain's words, Varis once again realized how huge a battleship was.
A battleship is equivalent to a city and a society. There are always some sewer corners in a city.
And according to what the captain said, there may be many people in this place, like the tribe of cyborgs, who choose to live and reproduce in dangerous places away from civilized society. There are not only soldiers and sailors on this battleship, but also some fringe people.
The Marines have been cleaning up the terrible things hidden in unknown corners.
"Amazing." Varis nodded repeatedly, turned around and led everyone to move forward.
As for the body, it was dragged away by his comrades.
The White Knight has a unique funeral culture, that is, the ashes of the deceased will be put into an urn, and the urn will be hung on the torpedo until the warship fights the enemy one day in the future. The ashes will be launched together with the torpedo.
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An hour later.
Varys can barely walk on his own and is somewhere between conscious and semi-conscious.
But this also means that he is getting closer and closer to the soulless man.
Originally, he was enjoying himself with his brother-in-law on the command deck, but the adjutant who was forcibly dragged by Varis to participate in the operation carried one of Varis' arms. He was reluctant but had to do it.
Everyone cleaned up a lot of things along the way.
For example, the bandits from the Cyborg tribe, and the plundering convoy composed of Void Sailor Wanderers who used to work in the equipment maintenance depot of the White Knight...
In short, on this useless ship, After a wonderful adventure in the ship's sewer, the team finally found the person they were looking for.
The most powerful soulless man is under the protection of some people.
Varys has completely passed out.
The Marine Corps members all grimaced in discomfort. They vomited until they could no longer vomit and then managed to stabilize their bodies.
However, compared to these ordinary people, the people around the soulless people did not react at all to the power of the soulless people. These dirty men and women looked at the uninvited guests indifferently.
"Follow...us...let's go!" the captain ordered the soulless man.
The adjutant immediately raised his hand to signal the captain not to speak like that to the soulless people, because he could see that these people had bad eyesight, and they obviously had opinions about the sailors and soldiers on the ship.
After everyone else fell silent, the adjutant first saluted the people in front of him, then slowly walked over and said in a pleading tone: "We are here to spread the kindness of the Lord of the Twelfth Legion, all of you People, if you can go back with us with this untouchable person, you will be able to get food rations on the ship for generations to come.”
"What is the Lord of the Twelfth Legion?" Someone asked, "My grandfather said that we are going to the First Legion."
"Angron..." the adjutant said, "We are no longer in the First Legion. Now, we belong to the Twelfth Legion.”
The people present were silent for a moment, and then cheered excitedly.
The adjutant could tell that these people had objections to the First Legion, so after learning that the battleship now belonged to the Twelfth Legion, they all chose to return to civilized society.
Seeing this, the adjutant raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Although this journey was hundreds of times more twists and turns than imagined, at least the mission was completed.
(End of this chapter)